davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
COAST DEFshsss.

Preparations for War the Absorbing
Topic.
Washington, Feb. l3-More is said
here tonight aboat coast defenses,
rebuilding the navy and general prepara.
tions for war than anything else. There
is q feeling that congress during the
next ten days, will make large appro-
priations for these purposes. 1t has
been discovered that, anticipating these
appropriations. riDga have been organized
to work off on the government various
patents for guns. etc., and the local press
to-day warns congress against them.
1t is said O powerful and corrupt lobby
is bringing all its influence to bear upon
the committee on appropriations to
stiie measures which do not favor them.
and that there is o movement on foot.
with powerful support in.the house, to
ignore every recommendation of the ex-
ecutive department of the government
relative to this matter, and to pass a bill
devised and developed manly with the
object of benefiting w or three alleged
.inventionsn and a few iron establish
ments. The bills which have passed the
senate represent the declared policy of
the government to fortify our cossts and
'domesticate in this country the manu-
~facturs OF the best neavy ordnance which
Gan be made. They represent years of
careful study and experiment and of
faithful efforts to serve public interests
by honest and able experts whom the
government employs to deal with ordi
nance questions. In the development
of their plans they have been COM
PEELED by common sense and the exper-
i6nce oil the whole world to abandon the
idea of making guns of iron and to in
sist that they shall be made OF steel.
They have also been compelled by their
sense of duty to reject the schemes of all
quacks and crazy heads who have set up
as gun inventors. These men, no matter
how dishonest or unworthy, are enour-
aged to continue their efforts to rob the
government when they find their COM
plants we'll received at the capitol and
even find influential members willing to
undertake to leRislate in their behalf.
The gun thieves and iron interests work
ing in conjunction with politicians who
are dissatisfied with the administration
of the war department. are now engaged
In an effort to substitute q small
half way measure IN which
private interests shall have
first place and public interests are almost
ignored. They would il they could take
it out of the control OF the president
himself. but they do not see their way
clear to accomplish that. They want to
set up some kind of q %nondescript board
which will proceed on a hand-to-mouth
policy and give the s'cranks'' and frauds
q good pull at the treasury. They want
to 20 on in the same feeble way we have
been going on since the war. appropriat.
ing o little money every year and avoid
ing nny large and generous expenditure
adequate TO the country's needs. They
want to substitute their own interests
for those Of the people, and to live like
princes while going on with their bogus
experiments.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15


Philadelphia times: A distinguished
looking man, with snowy hair and
whiskers, but a smooth and ruddy face
walked the rotunda OF the Continental
yesterday with an elastic step. It was
ex-Gov. Lucius Fairchild, OF Wisconsin,
commander in chief of the Grand Army
OF the Republic of the United States.
Hrs empty sleeve attests his devotion to
the II II am not" he said, sin
politics to any considerable extent now.
Away back, when I was what might be
called a youngster, I was governor of
Wisconsin and had q good deal to do
with public affairs, but another genera.
ton is in the saddle now. The only
position / hold is that Of commander i a
chief OF the Grand Army, and I am now
on my way to Harrisburg to attend the
the state encampment, which begins to-
morrow" Gov. Fairchild must be nearly
the allotted age, but his clear complex
ion, penetrating eyes and robust physique
might well be envied by the average man
of so.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
A Probable Eight for once.

Washington SPECIAL: 'There is gong
to be one OF the p~rettiest fights over the
offices OF the next congress you ever
Witnessed here" said q western demo-
cratic member this morning. s.Ihe fact
ia, we do not want to r~e-elect any of
these officers, and they are all going to
try to stampede the thing. 1t is CUSTOM
airy to give an officer two terms, where
he ls efficient and pleases the majority.
These men have all had two terms ex.
eept the d~oorkeeper, and one term is
quite too much of him. He has made O
fist OF the distribution of offices and. has
pleased no n in the general discharge
of his duties.
'Leedom, Of Ohio, cannot get a re-
election as sergeant-at-arms, because he
Is not popular and because his friends
promised the last time thai he would
not ask for g third term. He got it last
time by a scratch. Clerk CLARK, of Mis-
souri,, cannot get his own delegation, and
if he could he would not be reelected.
He is fixed upon for decapitation by
succession. The only one of the. four
principal officers who has the ghost of q
chance for being reelected is Postmaster
Dalton, of Indiana. His duties are mani
fold and complicated. He has made the
most acceptable officer we have had here
during my stay OF twelve years. He is
efficient and has done the best that a
man could do IN the distribution of his
patronage, There is an excuse for HIM
staying, and he may be kept. But the
other officers must and will go. because
they have served out their time, and
have not given general satisfa otion.
There will be a general scramble and q
good chance for dark horses to plunge
in. OF course the men who enter the
field first get the pole in these races"
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
sunering for NecessnrIes of Life.

SuJtertnx IOc N~cCcSShr1eS Oh Lie.
st. Johns, N. F., Feb. 13-Many busl-
ness houses are in financial difficulty and
. commercial crisis is inevitable. News
from the northern part of the island re-
presents things IL a deplorable condi.
ton. The government has already sent
l 600 barrels OF -four to keep the people
from starving, but the supply is alto
gether inadequate. The most northefly
parts are now frozen in and
1T is impossible to send supplies
there in time to save the people. It
was a most pitifnl sight to witness the
scenes at many places at which the
coastIng steamer Ourlew stopped on her
last trip north. Soores. of psople who
had nothing but Goldfish and bareback,
and but very little of that, to subsist on
for months. dragged themselves across
twenty to fifty miles of barren rocks
and Wild wastes to where the steamer
called. They came in hopes OF getting
small supplies OF Aour, molasses and
pork to keep body and soul together
during the next three months. But the
steamer had no supplies for them, and
they started to return to their miserable
novels to snffer all the papgs OF hunger
and exhaustion, added to the rigors of o
Newfoundland winter, and then to die,
rs they must inevitably before relief can
reach them. Meanwhile, the govern
ment has spent such large sums IN pur-
chasing supplies and constructing the
P%lacentia railway to furnish labor aud
save the peopis OF that district from.
starving that the treasury is depleted.
Added to this the fact that Newfound-
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
Chicago ANARCHISTS Colonizins

Chicago Anarchists C0l0nizing.
New York, Feb. l3-Oscar Neff one of
the Chicago anarchists who escaped
punishment by tarning states evidence.
was in the city last week. A reporter
found HIM purchasing back numbers of
a German weekly.
"Going to take them to some of my
Chicago friends" he said.
"Where'are your Chicago friendsf"
I'm Santiago, de los Caballeros, San
Domingo, where / am going on the
steamship SANTANA"
"Going to emigrate?"
"Yes. 1t is said to be o hot place, but
it will not be half as hot there as Chicago
would be for me if / chose to wait until
the second trial of the anarchists comes
off. Spies is making a fool OF himself
demanding a Q trial. As it Is now he
could get OFF with q pardon. His second
trial will implicate many others. The
state has accumulated matters of eddi-
tional evidence that many hang half a
hundred men. Thought it wise to skip"
How do you come to go to San Do
mingo?"
ooh, it was agreed to skip to that part
of the globe whenever there was reason
for SO dong long before the Haymarket
bomb throwers. We have got q colony
there"
will your colony be ruled by anarch-
istic ideas"
"Not MUCH" answered Neff; sit will
be ruled by the law of the country we
will live in, and everybody will have to
paddle his W CANOE"
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
She Eucouraged Him to Pom.

He was naturally bashful, and in her
company was as dumb as an oyster. She
understood him, and one evening asked
plainly what made HIM SO silent when
ever he called on her.
der dcu't know" he stammered. "I
always ha have something to say before
you come II but l can't get it out"
"Indeed?" she said enoouragingly.
eyes, ! am like q bottle that is corked
up tight"
Every tight, Mr.. Smith 2"
Eyes, indeed, very"
swell, that isn't SO bad as you think.
There is n good thing about It,"
what is il, / pray"
"Why, you know the tighter a bottle is
corked the more forcibly it pops."
He grasped the situation at once and
now she dosen,t caro- whether he talks
or not. She is content to do it all her
self Traoeler.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15

alternating the Affections OF o s8artby
sweetheart, Graves will have his leg
amputated and atienbaok will beard
With the sheriff.
A petition asking GOV. Church to
appoint VIM. Van Epps, of Sioux Falls,
to the board of railroad commissioners
of the territory, was circulated IN Sioux
Falls last week and received the sigma
lures of q number of leading repub.
licans.
La 1876 there we're only three priests
and a few Catholics in Dakota. Now
there are one bishop, one vicar-general,
80 priests, 1876 churches. SO chapels, 4
academies. % parochial schools. &c stu
dents for priesthood and over 50,OeO
Catholics.
A Fargoite remarks: The Legislature
ought not to meet oftensr than once in
five years and the territory would be bet.
ter off if it was once in twenty-five years
Nothing of Importance will be done to
relieve the farmers, as the members can
unite on nothing,
The Letcher Blade remarks, concern
ing the abundance of snow, that "the
evaporation from the melted snow in
duces the early spring %rains," and adds
that "an Rrtesian well in each township
would fill up the lakes and streams in 8
little while and produce the same re-
sult, snow or no snow. Let us have the
law authorizing the ~artesian wells"
Ex-senator B. Z. Bruce lectured OF
the race question at Sioux Falls las
week. At the same time there were nu-
merous horse men in Sioux Falls making
arrangements about the June meeting
They took in the lecture unanimously
but found that the race the senate
talked about was not the race they wer,
thinking about.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS

The Vermillion roller mills are run
niDg night and day.
Dakota Indians hold about twenty
seven million acres of land.
Ice on the Missouri at VermilIion is
from two tothree feet thick.
The Fargo colony for Honduras sailed
from New Orleans Feb. 18th.
New poatmasters: j. "A. Ferrip,
Medora; M. O'Uonnor, st. Thomas.
Straw brings.$$ So a load in Mercer coun-
tys It is almost impossible to get hay
at any prce.
A fne job press fell from a dray at
Plankinton o few days ago, and was en-
tirely ruined.
The members of the Methodist church
at jamestown have decided to enlarge
their church,
The poor farm scheme was vetoed by
Grand Forks county electors in the
recent election.
Fred Kibbe, the founder of the Plank
luton Free Press. is about to start q
newspaper in Mitchell.
About April 1ss q daily stage will be
rim each way from Bowdle TO La Grace
By the way Of Mound City.
The young ladies OF tht, normal school
at Madison have organized o military
company and drill regularly.
The Tracy passenger train is stuck in o
drift four miles out OF Watertown. Pro-
yletors have been sent ont to 1t.
Q. 7. Hundly, who stands 2 fair show
to be appointed attorney general, was
the first democrat elected Ia. office in
Bsadle county.
The B~ridgewater section men found
the dead body of d newly born infant on
the track one-half mile east al Emery
Wednesday morning.
Harvey Thompson and Mrss Hender-
son are in the Watertown Jail. charged
with adultery. They were convicted of
the same offence a year ago.
The new corporation got before the
legislature viii not affect q single city
in the territory, as it only applies to
those adopting it after passage.
DR.. A. ii. Webster and Kiss Murchil,
recently married at st. Andrews, Walsh
county, 20 10 west central Africa as
missionaries. Grand Forks churches
gave them u farewell .nas.:nF.
2 sseinback, ~colorea, shot Robert
Graves, also duskyy al 6.ap.u City Tor
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
The Rock island Train Robbers,

Chicago, Feb. l3-rhe Daily News,
Morris, Ill, special says IN regard to the
Rock Island train robbery: Yesterday
William Pinkerten esme here with Watt
and Mrs, Schwartz, and held o long in
terview with Schwartz. This mornin q
at 6 O'Clock Watts was placed under
arrest and taken before Justice Wood
bury, charged with completely in the
murder of Kellogg Nichols. The pre-
liminary examination was postponed TO
Friday of next week. Jim Cody, the
Suspect, was admitted to bail this morn
ing in the sum OF 5 1000. Mrs. Schwartz
is also here; also Pinkerton aad Smith,
and further arrests are expected.
In the Rock Island express murder
and robbery case it is now stated that
SCHWARTZ turned ove considerable mon
ey to Watt, who at first denied the fact,
alter wards confessed to a detective that
he did receive some money from
Schwartz, but he had hidden it and
you'd not disclose its hiding place. Fer
his failure to tnrn mp the money he was
placed under arrest. 1t is also learned
that Schwartz confessed to his wife that
he had found between 81, 1000 and S.
in a satchel on the Rock Island tram, a
portion OF which he q turned over to
Watt when he found that the police were
following him.
Mrs. Schwartz told William Pinker-
ton thGt although her husband knew
nothing about the murder, or who COM
mitted it, OF the night of the tragedy he
ran the express car from Morris to
Davenport; that after he got on the oar
he found a package Of $50 and 500 bills,
which he put in his pocket, and which
he afterwards found to contain $1,000.
He had expended some of this, had
sscreted another small portion and de.
stroyeG about $500 By burning 1t. After
some persuasion on the part of Mrs.
Schwartz her, husband told the stoEy
about the same. and said he had given
about 5 5000 to a friend named Newton
Watt. On Watt being questioned by
Pinkerton if be had the money men
toned. Watt deNliaed to say at first.
but later said he had hidden il in a
place where it could not be recovered.
P.nkestaa ssseseaod III securing admis-
sioDs and evidence which justified him.
in srresting Wats Tor completely in the
murder.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15

of the recent veto of the dependent pen
zion bill, and of the very great lmpor-
tance of that measure to many of our
disabled comrades who need and are
justly entitled to help, it is recommended
that posts and comrades everywhere. by
resolutions and letters, Immediately
inform the members OF congress, who are
entitled to and will gladly receive the, Q
expressions of opinion, of their approval
or disapproysl of the principles involved
in the vetoed bill. Comrades are re-
quested to move at once without waiting
for printed circulars.
By commend of Lucius Fairchild COM
mander in chief.
E. B. GRAY, Adiutant. General.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
Buckten,s Arntca sa.ve

The beat Salye in the world for Outs,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblain
Corns, aud all Skin Eruptions, and pos.
itively cures Piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price rs cents per box.
For Sale by the Excelsior Drug Store Of
Purdy & Brecht.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
ii MARKETS,

CHICAGO. February IL.
Flour-Steady, and unchanged.
Wheat-Cash. 1855 May 70 1916; June s1H.
Corn-Oash S4h; May 39A June 40 11-l6.
0ats-CashA A March 24A; May % 1916.
Rye-A.
Barley-5NB51.
Timothy 1861. 81.
Flax-S1 O5zGi. O8.
Whisky-S1.1S.
Cattle-Shipping steers IS, 5095 GO; stockers,
feeders s2,5O9s. 1885,; cows, bulls and mixed
3 1.750S.75; bulk at S2.5ODS.sO.
H~ogs.-Rough and mixed So. O005, 80; packing
chipping S5.25S5,55; light weights $3.50;
rs; skips $3.5004.70.
Sheep-Receipts, i 1000; Market steady; natives
Ss 5Og4.s6; western 50 5014.70; lambs $4,000
5 &c.
MILWAUKEE, February II.
WheatI,Cash 74a; March "a; May TN.
Oats-No. 3, 81.
Rye-No. 1, So.
Barley-No, 2. bA.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15

land fish is o gl1t on every market,
owing to inability to compete with
that of their boupty-fed French rivals.
and it Is truly said that the island pre-
sents to the world she most monrnful
spectacle, and it's people are the most
miserable OF ell English colonists. com
pared with whom the people of Ireland
are prosperous.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15
A.a.A.x. c,rcn,ar.

Madison Wis, Feb. 1.-THE following
zgas issued to-day:
National Headquarters g. A. r. Mad
ison. Feb. A-Circular o. 4--ln view
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06
Ell PASO TRAGEDY.
A Now Orleans Drummer Kills Negro
Barber

A Now Orleans Drummer Kills a Negro
Barber.
Special to the Gazette.
Ell PAso, TEX, May SIT is a cold
day when Ell Paso is without some sort of
sensation. The fright from the earth
quake has about suosided and a tragedy
follows closely. Edgard Bonliguia, q
New Orleans drummer, shot and killed
Alfred Kennard, negro barber, in front
of the Verandah hotel, at 10 O'Clock this
BoniIguia sent for barber to
go TO the hotel and shave a sick friend.
He did so, and charged 81 for the job.
Bonliguia refused to pay what he deemed
an exorbitant charge. The negro went
off and presently returned and
said he would "have the dollar
or knock Bonliguia's head Off !"
He stepped in front of Bonliguia
and picked up . big rock, when the latter
raised the pistol to his hip and fred,
many linking it went off accldently, but
it struck Kennard's neck, killing nim in
stantly. Bonliguia surrendered and is in
jail. He is about thirty-6Ve years old
and belongs to a noted Creole family in
New Orleans, and has a brother who is
president of a national bank in that city.
He has been making his home recently in
the City of Mexico.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06
EAGLE PASS.
A Brut al Murder-An International Bridge
Mexican Holiday.


Mexican Holiday.
Specia to the Gazette.
EAGLE Pass, TEX, May 5.-A brutal
and unprovoked murder occurred here
about 80 this evening, the victim being
EritinO Diaz, an unoffensive Mexican
citizen of this town. The particulars as
far as could be ascertaineG this evening
are as follows: DiaZ and the murderer,
who gives his name as Estatro Herman
DEE, had been drinking together but
neither of them were dlunk. They were
seen going down the hill st the foot
of Main street towards the river
then went over the bank and down into
the bed Of the river. A few minutes later
Messrs. L. SWitZer, Fisher and Suther-
land, who were on their way to cross
some cattle from Mexico to this side,
rode upon the two men and found them
quarreling. After fighting with their
fits for some time, Hernandez
suddenly drew a long sheath knife
and plunged it twice to the hilt
in Diaz' left size, piercing the
heart. He then threw the knife away and
ran toward the river, but was overtaken
by SWitZer and Fisher, who arrested him
and turned him over to Sheriff Cook.
The murderer is now safe in jail. Jus
tie Sulzbach is holding an inquest on
deceased.
This morning at 10 o'clock ground was
formally broken for the international
highway bridge across the Rio Graude
between this town and Pledras
Negras. A large assembly of people
was present and RECALLED themselves
with an ample repast. Speeches were
made by Senator Garcia apd Dick LON
bard, and the first spade full of dirt was
brown by James W. Riddle, Esq, the
father of the enterprise. The Eagle Pass
juvenile brass band lent their presence
and sweet music to the occasion.
To day being a national holiday in
Mexico, is being extensively observed in
this city and PIedras Negras.
The Eagle Pass Sociedad Mutalista give
a reception this evening.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06
Who He Is,

CHARLESTON, W. VA, May The Sen
ate and Lower House met in joint assem-
bly, at noon to-day for the purpose of
electing United States Senator. There
were eighty-nine members present. Of
this number fOrty-ive was required to
election. The vote is Faulkner, Demo-
GRAFT, 48; Flick, Republican, 81; B4rbee,
Greenbsck, s; Camden, r T. Brown,
/; Whittsker, 2. Faulkner having re-
ceived the necessary number of votes
was declared elected. Judge Faulkner,
who represented Virginia and
West Virginia in the Congress of the
United States before the late
war and served as minister to France IN
der the administration of President
Buchanan, was born in Martins
burg, Berkeley county, w. Va, where
be now resides, ami is about sixty
years of age. He is a lawyer. He was
elec-ed judge Of the Thirteenth Judicial
circuit, aud has held the office up to this
time. He is considered one of the ablest
judges in the state, and is universally
popular with all classes.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06
Missouri Crops.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 5.-Mr. j. w. San
born, secretary of the board of agricul-
ture, furnishes the following crop report
for April: Wheat is rated at 81, which is
decided improvement. Conditions are
still favorable and wheat is improving.
The comparative area of oats is 103 and of
meadows 1928. Spring work is twelve
days in advance of last year, which has
encouraged the increase of area of cult
waited crops. Peaches promise well and
are IS while apples are IS. Pastures are
backward and stock thin but healthy.
Farmers are hopeful and the outlook is
favorable.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-06
Kentucky Democrats,

LOUISVILLE, KY, May 5.-The Demo
cratic convention resumed it's session this
morning, with MIR. Carlisle in the chair.
The resolutions as drawn up by Messrs.
Carlisle and WattersOn were finally
adopted. Hon. James Bryan of Coving-
ton was nominated for Lieutenant Gov
ernor on the first ballot; P. w. Hardin of
Mercer county, for Attorney General;
General Lafayette Hewitt of Hardin, for
Auditor; R Tate of Franklin, for Treas
urer.
j. D. Pickett, superintendent of public
instruction; Thomas, Corbett, register
Of the land office, and all the officers with
the exception of governor and lieutenant
governor, are the present incumbents of
the offices for which they were renomi-
mated. The convention adjourned sine
die.